"It is based on Noise by Blackhole Media (a great application which hasn't been updated in many years)."

"BillaBoop is a real-time audio driven drum controller which allows the user to control up to 3 drum instruments. The user can control any drum synth with the voice (beat box), or any object or musical instrument"

"You make a bucket on Amazon S3, filled with MP3s. When someone visits your S3 Radio station, it builds a playlist from the contents of the bucket and starts streaming it to the listener, in a random order."

an opensource embeddable mp3 player

"We present Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP) – a protocol to seamlessly connect telephony voice applications. HSTP enables the users to browse across voice applications by navigating the Hyperspeech content in a voice application. HSTP can also be used for developing cross-enterprise applications that allow a user to transact across two or more voice applications."

"Download is free. Try it out on your iphone and walk through town: You will experience a city with distinct locative melodies. Sniff_jazzbox creates an audible city. It converts the wlan-waves into sound waves. The extended version for iphone will let the user control instruments and speed of the melodies. Concept by and-or.ch & johannes auer."

Yay, test suites!

"Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight, primarily for Linux and other Unix/X11 based operating systems. In September of 2007, Microsoft and Novell announced a technical collaboration that includes access to Microsoft's test suites for Silverlight and the distribution of a Media Pack for Linux users that will contain licensed media codecs for video and audio."

"Speex is an Open Source/Free Software patent-free audio compression format designed for speech. The Speex Project aims to lower the barrier of entry for voice applications by providing a free alternative to expensive proprietary speech codecs. Moreover, Speex is well-adapted to Internet applications and provides useful features that are not present in most other codecs. Finally, Speex is part of the GNU Project and is available under the revised BSD license."

Ian Hickson reviews emails covering looping audio and video resources in HTML 5. Key take away - "1. Simplify the API where possible; in particular start/end/loopStart/loopEnd and so on...I've removed all those attributes and related APIs."

"ToolPlayer is a little and simple music player for OSX with support for many file types, including FLAC, MP3, AAC, Musepack, Monkey's Audio, OGG Vorbis, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, IT, MOD, XM, Games Music and many others. Includes numerous effects like Equalizer, Reverb, Time Stretch, Pitch Shift, Echo. Moreover, all supported files can be exported to MP3, AAC, WAV and other formats with enabled effects."

Jeremy Keith's notes about using HTML5's audio element with Safari (including an apparent problem where audio elements are preloaded by default... browse around Huffduffer with Safari to see why this sucks.)

Jeremy Keith's experimental social audio project uses the HTML 5 audio element where supported (Safari for instance and the upcoming Firefox 3.1)

How Firefox 3.1 implements HTML 5's <audio> element.

"This document is intended to serve as an introduction to a discussion of the requirements/needs for accessibility support for media elements in HTML5, along with some proposed solutions. It is deliberately written not as specification, which would give the illusion that it was final, and also be rather long; but as an introductory document. "

My old boss made this corpus and I think it is the most wonderful thing ever.

"MediaMatrix is an online application that allows users to isolate, segment, and annotate digital media."

In the age-old struggle between farmers and weeds, farmers have enjoyed the weed killer Roundup. Some have called it the herbicide of a lifetime. But after 30 years on the market the chemical seems to be losing its power over some weeds, changing farming

Stupid bug! Patch is in the comments

"BZ Soundboard lets you create virtual soundboards on your Mac."

A very simple and lightweight Adobe Flash MP3 player with automatic JavaScript insertion, so a small audio player automatically appears next to any MP3s you link to.

I love generative music and this is cleanly laid out tool. It works like GarageBand lite for computer music.